Hours after surveillance footage captured a cat leaving the Nomura Plating factory in Fukuyama city on Sunday night, a worker discovered a trail of yellow-brown paw prints leading away from a container of toxic , and potentially deadly, chemicals, reports say.
Officials in the city, in Hiroshima prefecture, believe the cat fell into the container before escaping the factory. The company alerted local authorities.
The 11-foot-tall vat of metal plating solution contained hexavalent chromium, which can cause rashes and irritation or damage to the eyes and skin, as well as lung cancer if breathed in.
It’s also the chemical at the centre of a groundwater contamination incident in a small town in California in the movie Erin Brockovich, which was based on a true story. City officials say the…
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